AAS 201: Student Activism: Archives

Locations of Newspaper Issues

• Issues of The Mississippian between 1911 and 1968 are available on microfilm – ask the main library reference desk for assistance locating the reels and using the microfilm reader.
• Issues of The Daily Mississippian between 1968 and 2001 are available on microfilm – ask the main library reference desk for assistance locating the reels and using the microfilm reader.
• Special Collections has bound volumes of The Daily Mississippian between 2001 and 2010.
• The Daily Mississippian issues between 2010 and the present are available online at https://issuu.com/dailymississippian.

Suggested Dates to Examine

• James Meredith & the Integration of the University of Mississippi:  Check out The Mississippian during the weeks surrounding the riot on 30 September – 1 October 1962.
• The Black Student Union & the Creation of Afro-American Studies at the University of Mississippi:  Examine The Daily Mississippian during the period 25 February – 1 May 1970.
• Protest & Debate of Confederate Symbols at the University of Mississippi:  One of the longest running dialogs in the South on Confederate symbols takes place in the pages of the Daily Mississippian.  Look for articles, editorials, cartoons, and letter during the following active periods:  8-11 March 1976; 2 October – 6 December 1979; 2 September – 27 October 1982; 11-28 April 1983; 25 February – 7 April 1993; 19 August – October 1994; 26 September – 29 October 1997; 12-23 October 2015.

Primary Sources:

• Oral Histories from Black Power at Ole Miss - Interviews include descriptions of life in Mississippi in the 1950s and 1960s; the Civil Rights Movement; Jim Crow segregation; desegregation; campus climate and racism at the University of Mississippi; student activism; the Black Student Union; the Up with People protest; police and state violence and surveillance; Parchman Prison; the Vietnam War; Black Power; legal aid; and reparations, among other topics.

Secondary Sources:

• Anne Percy, “Rebel Land after James Meredith” (M.A. thesis, University of Mississippi, 1994).  Call Number:  LD3411.82 P47 1994.  Chapter on UM Black Student Union protests of the 1970s.
• Nadine Cohodas, The Band Played Dixie:  Race and the Liberal Conscience at Ole Miss (New York:  Free Press, 1997).  Call Number:  LD3413 C65 1997.
• David G. Sansing, The University of Mississippi:  A Sesquicentennial History (Jackson:  University Press of Mississippi, 1999).  Call Number:  LD3413 S26 1999.

Primary Sources:

• James Meredith Collection - Digitized items from the James Meredith Collections. Includes Anti-Integration Letters and Pro-Integration Letters.
• Integration of the University of Mississippi - Digitized items from the Integration of the University of Mississippi Collections. Includes integration correspondence, newspapers and newsletters, photographs, and scrapbooks.

Secondary Sources:

• William Doyle, An American Insurrection:  James Meredith and the Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962 (New York:  Doubleday, 2001).  Call Number:  LD3413 D69 2003.
• Charles Eagles, The Price of Defiance:  James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss (Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 2009).  Call Number:  LD3413 E24 2009.
• Meredith C. McGee, James Meredith:  Warrior and the America that Created Him (Santa Barbara, CA:  Praeger, 2013).  Call Number:  LD3412.9  M38 2013.

Primary Sources:

• Contextualization at the University of Mississippi - UM Libraries resources on the contextualization of Ole Miss buildings, monuments, and other campus locations.

Secondary Sources:

• Michael Upton, “’Keeping the Faith with the University Greys’:  Ole Miss as lieu de memoire” (M.A. thesis, University of Mississippi, 2002).  Explores Civil War commemoration on campus.  Call Number:  LD3411.82 U675 2002.
• Nadine Cohodas, The Band Played Dixie:  Race and the Liberal Conscience at Ole Miss (New York:  Free Press, 1997).  Call Number:  LD3413 C65 1997.
• David G. Sansing, The University of Mississippi:  A Sesquicentennial History (Jackson:  University Press of Mississippi, 1999).  Call Number:  LD3413 S26 1999.
• Leigh McWhite, “Echoes of the Lost Cause:  Civil War Reverberations in Mississippi from 1865 to 2001” (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Mississippi, 2002).  Chapter 6 “Debating Flags” surveys the symbol controversies on campus from the late 1960s to 2001.  Available online through ProQuest UM Digital Dissertations.